But only three in all God's universe br Have heard this word thou has said,--Himself, beside br Thee speaking, and me listening! and replied br One of us...that was God,...and laid the curse br So darkly on my eyelids, as to amerce br My sight from seeing thee,--that if I had died, br The deathweights, placed there, would have signified br Less absolute exclusion. Nay is worse br From God than from all others, O my friend! br Men could not part us with their worldly jars, br Nor the seas change us, nor the tempests bend; br Our hands would touch for all the mountain-bars: br And, heaven being rolled between us at the end, br We should but vow the faster for the stars.